The month of March is International Women’s Month in America, and the Columbia Historical Museum will be observing it at the historical Rosenwald School on March 7th. West Columbia Mayor Laurie Beal Kincannon will be the museum’s special guest at the “First Saturday of the Month” event next month.
Your local museum invites kids of all ages, and adults too for that matter, to attend the next “First Saturday of the Month” program at the Rosenwald School, which is located directly behind the museum at the intersection of Broad and Clay streets in West Columbia. While the free program for children will last from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on March 7th, Mayor Kincannon is scheduled to speak at 11 a.m. that day. Her topic will be important women throughout the history of the great state of Texas as well as in West Columbia area history.
Laurie Kincannon and Columbia Historical Museum board vice president Misty Congdon will both be on the ballot when the City of West Columbia holds its next election in May. Congdon, who is the primary supervisor of the museum’s monthly “First Saturday of the Month” programs for children, will be running unopposed for one of the council seats on the ballot. And Kincannon, who is the City of West Columbia’s first female mayor and the longest serving mayor in the city’s history, is also unopposed for reelection in 2026.
The children attending this free event at the Rosenwald School March 7th will be educated on voting and will be asked to elect the “First Saturday of the Month” programs’ very first class president. This come-and-go program at the Rosenwald School will also allow children in attendance to learn how to create their own wooden puzzle of the First Capital replica. Columbia was the first capital of the Republic of Texas in 1836.
For more information about the March 7th “First Saturday of the Month” program at the historic Rosenwald School in West Columbia, contact the Columbia Historical Museum at (979) 345-6125. The museum is located at 247 East Brazos Avenue in downtown West Columbia and is open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
